Word: snap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Going out the door, a Group I man said: "It was a snap." And everyone went home happy...
Before 1930 correlation exams depended on general questions; actually they were reviews of elementary courses. To remove the "snap," there was devised a system based upon specific questions. Now every one, disliking over-specialization, dislikes this method, claiming that the exams are so narrow as to be almost another test of a candidate's special field. Most of the material, moreover, can be gathered from certain advanced courses, thus making the new system the same old story. To climax the dissatisfaction, it was discovered last year that few candidates used tutorial reading for preparation. For this failure the tutors cannot...
...diseased, however, the picture is different. Dr. Elias Lincoln Stern of Columbia believes that many sick people who take in plenty of Bt with their food are unable to utilize it because an alkaline condition of the blood or digestive tract neutralizes it. In such cases the hungry nerves snap up the vitamin, if any reaches them, like a hungry man wolfing a plate of ham and eggs. To sidestep possible alkalinity in the body, Dr. Stern administers the vitamin directly to the spine...
Pistol shrimp, which snap their claws with a report as loud as that of a cap pistol...
...Light Parade. To the uninitiated, hockey, the fastest game in the world, looks like a haphazard melee in which someone by luck occasionally pokes a puck into a net. But professional hockey players, who are required to make snap decisions while speeding 30 ft. a second, have well-timed plays ready for almost every circumstance that arises, seldom make goals save by effective teamwork. Baseball had its famed Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance combination, but every big-league hockey team has a forward line (left wing, centre and right wing) that functions with the precision of baseball's great...